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NX server on Raspberry Pi

Finally I had some time to get my hand on new Raspberry Pi 2.
I think it’s useful to access the RPi2 by ssh (work out of the box) and NX. Installation of NX server is quite time-consuming, but I think it’s worth to give it a try! Here is what I did:

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Dear,
at the tail of installation process I got following set of errors:

—-> Testing your nxserver configuration …
Error: Could not find nxagent in /usr/bin. Please install some OSS components.
Warning: Could not find nxdesktop in /usr/bin. RDP sessions won’t work.
Warning: Could not find nxviewer in /usr/bin. VNC sessions won’t work.
Warning: Invalid value “APPLICATION_LIBRARY_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2:/usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4:/usr/lib/libXcomp.so:/usr/lib/libXcompext.so:/usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.2”. /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2 could not be found. Users will not be able to run a single application in non-rootless mode.
Warning: Invalid value “COMMAND_FOOMATIC=/usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic-ppdfile”
Users will not be able to use foomatic.
Warning: “/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb” is not executable.
Users will not be able to enable printing.
Warning: Invalid value “CUPS_ETC=/etc/cups/”
Users will not be able to enable printing.
Warning: Invalid value “DEFAULT_X_SESSION=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession”
Users might not be able to request a default X session.
Warning: Invalid value “COMMAND_START_KDE=startkde”
Users will not be able to request a KDE session.
Warning: Invalid value “COMMAND_START_GNOME=gnome-session”
Users will not be able to request a Gnome session.
Warning: Invalid value “COMMAND_START_CDE=cdwm”
Users will not be able to request a CDE session.
Warning: Invalid value “COMMAND_XTERM=xterm”
Users will not be able to request an xterm session.
Warning: Invalid value “COMMAND_SMBMOUNT=smbmount”. You’ll not be able to use SAMBA.
Warning: Invalid value “COMMAND_SMBUMOUNT=smbumount”. You’ll not be able to use SAMBA.
Warning: Invalid cupsd version of “/usr/sbin/cupsd”. Need version 1.2.
Users will not be able to enable printing.
strings: ‘/usr/bin/nxagent’: No such file
Error: Could not find 1.5.0 or 2.[01].0 or 3.[01].0 version string in nxagent. NX 1.5.0 or 2.[01].0 or 3.[012].0 backend is needed for this version of FreeNX.